Shen Sao Ye leaned over. "Your name is Helan Shan?"
"I'm also called Niulan Shan." Shi Tiexin looked speechless. "My name is Shi Tiexin."
"You're clearly called Shi Tiexin, yet she naturally called you Helan Shan. You clearly aren't called Helan Shan, yet you immediately accepted that name. This—" Shen Sao Ye's gaze traveled back and forth between the two of them three times. Then a knowing smile reserved for seasoned drivers bloomed across his face. "Bro, your play is pretty cutting-edge. You're not as honest as you look!"
"What the fuck..." Shi Tiexin was dumbfounded. Even after his Seven Orifice Literary Heart spun three times, he still could not figure out how Shen Sao Ye's mind worked, nor understand what connection there was between calling someone by the wrong name and play.
Had Shen Sao Ye's ability to make dirty jokes evolved on the Main Worldline too?
Forget it. No matter how it had evolved, he had plenty of ways to rein him in.
"I'm telling you, restrain yourself. You're a swordsman now, remember?"
"Oh, right, right. Ahem, ahem." Shen Sao Ye immediately put away his seasoned-driver grin, and the character "sword" once again rose all over his body.
Shi Yulei walked over, asking curiously, "And this is?"
"Shen Sao... forget it, don't bother remembering his name. Anyway, he's a new friend I just met." Shi Tiexin turned and introduced her. "This is Shi Yulei, an old friend of mine."
"Hello." Shi Yulei greeted him with scholarly grace, showing none of the madness she had displayed in battle.
"Mm." Shen Sao Ye folded his arms and nodded, his expression cool and aloof as though he intended to fully commit to the persona of cold on the outside, warm on the inside. "Hello."
But once Shi Yulei turned away, he